...Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries ad often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through...

...This introductory chapter examines the supposed relation of Christianity to Judaism. It begins by showing how Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber defended the validity of the Old Testament as part of the Christian Bible. Faulhaber also provides a supersessionist account of Christianity's relation...

...This chapter examines the politics of desecularization by focusing on the experience of Christian churches and North Korean migrants in Seoul. In particular, it demonstrates how Seoul has undergone desecularization in response to a changing geopolitical climate by providing both historical accounts...

...This chapter explores how semiotic differentiation, class, and denominationalism have influenced the rapid postwar urbanization of Seoul and the rapid growth of Protestant Christianity in South Korea. It argues that these views of the city manifest as perspectives on other Christians—or, in a sense...

... of the impact on the laity and the reaction of the laity to liturgical reform. Liturgists are an arrogant and authoritarian sect within the Church. The stories, the images, and the metaphors are the glue that holds Catholic Christianity together at this time of revolutionary change. The liturgy in all its...

..., education, social issues, home, and the state. Instead of the Western concept of religion that was modeled after Christianity and its theology, Suzuki tried to present how a Buddhist model of “religion” or “religious experience” would relate to social life. Suzuki searched for a suitable non-Christian “God...

... with the anthropological literature addressing processes of cultural transmission. The chapter approaches the religious tradition of western Ukraine, a local variant of Eastern Christianity as a living tradition, a “cosmology in the making.” The account is based on a search for correlations between the social organization...

...This chapter describes contemporary Greek Orthodox celebrations on an island in the Bosporus that are attended by many Muslims from Istanbul, few of whom have any knowledge of the Christian faith. It draws on archival evidence to investigate the nature of syncretic activities in the late Ottoman...

...This epilogue synthesizes the main themes of this book and extracts a more general message. It draws attention again to the significance of long-term continuities (real as well as imagined) for Eastern Christians. Ritual practice as a living tradition is fundamental to their identities, both...

...The first part of this chapter explores the ecclesiastical and intellectual causes of the Alexandrian Christian community's movement away from the philosophically influenced Christian intellectual circle. The second part of this chapter examines Alexandrian pagan schools and the role they played...

...This chapter focuses on early-twentieth-century Protestant arguments for merging Christianity and medicine. It highlights the prescription of both prayer and Bible reading to patients on grounds that reading could be a transformative act capable of freeing a person from addictions and tyrannies...

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...Blood contains extraordinary symbolic power in both Judaism and Christianity — as the blood of sacrifice, of Jesus, of the Jewish martyrs, of menstruation, and more. Yet, though they share the same literary, cultural, and religious origins, on the question of blood the two religions have followed...

... relatively tolerant until they consider the possibility of a gay or lesbian family member. The chapter ends by revealing the surprisingly powerful role that Christianity and the Unification Church, which include less than 10 percent of the Taiwanese population, have had in organizing the movement against...

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... was nonexistent during the late Edo period. This chapter focuses on what the Japanese aboard the Senzaimaru thought about opium and Christianity in the country. It begins by providing a background on the Taiping Rebellion launched by Hong Xiuquan, a member of the Hakka minority and a Christian...

...The introduction presents the book's argument that holy saints and their imaginaries are sites of Christian-Muslim mediation in post-1952 Egypt. "Christian-Muslim mediation" signals two different kinds of mediation: (1) Orthodox Christian traditions of divine intercession that have long brokered...

... Christian community to portray themselves as members of the one true Christian Church, while painting their Nicene opponents as Homoousian heretics, whose beliefs were similar to other heresies and tantamount to paganism. The sophistication of this heresiology, its effective use of legal precedent...

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.... Spiritual marriage has dragged Christianity into disrepute. In a real sense, the portrait at the center of this study is not of the virgin, or of the couples, but of John Chrysostom and his self-understanding. Antioch artisans Daphne the mosaics in megalopsychia mythology theater the animals Cebes...